Writing Quotes · Page 60

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

— Annie Baker

So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing.

— George Stephen

“Writing a novel is a trek.”

— Erin Summerill

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

— Samuel Johnson

I'm not an actress. I'm a writer.

— Emily V. Gordon

I'm a writer, so I like nuances.

— Zoya Akhtar

“Writing is the equivalent to a striptease.”

— Kit Yan

Most novelists write about twisted lives.

— Tom Robbins

I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.

— Christopher Moore

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.

— George A. Sheehan

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

— Skylar Grey

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.

— Jean Burden

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.”

— Neil Young

“If books could kill, I would have written more of them before I died.”

— Judith Fitzgerald

I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.

— Zane Grey

When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around…

— Ira Sachs

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

— Katherine Dunn

Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.

— Ralph Keyes

“The fact that someone can relate to something you, in an intimate moment, jotted down, just blew me away.”

— Trent Reznor

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

— William Zinsser

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop…

— Jon Secada

“God--if by God the agnostic means precision, clarity, genuine feeling, accuracy--is in the details only when the writer (or speaker, for that…

— Daniel Menaker

Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so…

— Kate Braverman

Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you have to work…

— Agnes Bruckner

I actually was doing ghostwriting jobs since I was 17 years old, so I've been supporting myself off and on with writing…

— Brady Corbet

It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers;…

— Samuel Johnson

Do you want to be with Dave for the rest of your life?” Then he rips off a piece of paper and…

— Susane Colasanti

“On the other hand, if you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire,…

— Stephen King

I agree with Dreher when he writes, 'we can't build anything good unless we live by the belief that man does not…

— Paul Weyrich

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to…

— Idina Menzel

“I will quote one sentence from this text, namely, the one with which it ended. It was also the sentence which finally…

— Walter Moers

Writers will be judged by what they write.

— Raymond Carver

TV is the place that writers want to be.

— Ayelet Zurer

Caesar is not above the grammarians.

— Tiberius

Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

— Dave Barry

“The best kind of day is a writing day”

— Buffy Andrews

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.

— Jerry Spinelli

I really like violence in writing and films.

— Limmy

...I am writing these poems from inside a lion...

— Shel Silverstein